Do It Yourself Quotes

“Can’t trust no one else to do what you won’t do for yourself.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear

“You are responsible for who you become... Love yourself, Like your speed; Leave your scars; Live your skills!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Having someone do certain things for you is like getting someone to chew your food for you.

It might be easier to swallow but it loses all its flavor...

And you want the flavor!”
― Ze Frank

“the hardest question we have to ask ourselves in this life is, "Who am I?" Ideally, we answer it for ourselves, but be warned that others will strive to do it for you- so don't let them.”
― Karma Brown, Recipe for a Perfect Wife

“Before you think of asking for support from someone for the success your dreams, ask yourself "how much of what I have can I invest?" Help yourself first!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“It should be inserted here parenthetically that there's a school of mechanical thought which says I shouldn't be getting into a complex assembly I don't know anything about. I should have training or leave the job to a specialist. Thats a self-serving school of mechanical eliteness I'd like to see wiped out. [...] You're at a disadvantage the first time around it may cost you a little more because of parts you accidentally damage, and it will almost undoubtedly take a lot more time, but the next time around you're way ahead of the specialist. You, with gumption, have learned the assembly the hard way and you've a whole set of good feelings about it that he's unlikely to have.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“One major way to avoid shifting blames unto other people is to accept and agree that the efforts that turn the loads of your self- improvement have to turn on your own pivot.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“There is no better insurance than the knowledge of how to do something the right way. There is no greater peace of mind than knowing you did it the right way.”
― Jerry G. West

“Finally, if you're as exasperated as I am by the parts problem and have some money to invest, you can take up the really fascinating hobby of machining your own parts. [...] With the welding equipment you can build up worn surfaces with better than original metal and then machine it back to tolerance with carbide tools. [...] If you can't do the job directly you can always make something that will do it. The work of machining a part is very slow, and some parts, such as ball bearings, you're never going to machine, but you'd be amazed at how you can modify parts designs so that you can make them with your equipment, and the work isn't nearly a slow or frustrating as a wait for some smirking parts man to send away to the factory. And the work is gumption building, not gumption destroying. To run a cycle with parts in it you've made yourself gives you a special feeling you can't possibly get from strictly store-bought parts.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“I charge you; once you have the dream, decide to begin and begin right away. Wait for nobody to blow whistles for you to start.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Don’t wait for big opportunities. You can create small but wonderful ones by starting with what you have.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Don’t beg for treasure; create it for yourself. Don’t beg for positions; build one for yourself.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

“Don’t beg for attention; pay attention to your dreams and others will pay attention to you.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

“Having someone do certain things for you is like getting someone to chew your food for you. It might be easier to swallow but it loses all its flavor and it will be covered in spit. And you want the flavor!”
― Ze Frank

“The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you have learnt.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“You don’t expect the goat to hatch the hen’s eggs. People do what they know very well. Don’t expect someone who doesn’t know what you know to do it for you. Do it yourself.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“Why would anyone write anything after Hemingway, or compose a symphony after Beethoven, or paint a landscape after Turner? It isn't necessarily about doing it better. It's about doing it."
"Michael, that isn't what I meant. It's just, why should I slave away in the kitchen when I can just come here and pay for someone really talented to do all the work while I enjoy the results?"
"Tell her, Mira," Michael says, reaching back into Renata's dish for another taste.
I know what Michael means. If someone told me that I could travel anywhere and eat anything I wanted, choosing, if I so desired, to eat only in Michelin-rated restaurants for the rest of my life, but the price for such a gourmand's dream would be that I could never cook again, I'd turn it down without a moment's hesitation. It's about doing your best by a pile of mussels sweet from the sea, or holding a perfect tomato, warm, rosy, and smelling like summer, and knowing that there are a dozen ways that you can prepare it, each one a delicious homage.”
― Meredith Mileti, Aftertaste: A Novel in Five Courses

“No matter how you were taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to put on that smile.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“You cannot be accountable with the products of someone else's mind; no man is known for a skillful hunting by the number of bush meats gathered by another man!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“To become a better you, look nowhere else for another alarm to blow before you wake up. Get up and rise up.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Live full of accomplishments and die empty of your God-given potentials. Release your greatness now.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“Don’t wait for someone else to do it so you enjoy. You can’t do it yourself. Just try it.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“When I expected others to solve all my problems, my pool of problems got bigger because everyone expected to solve my problems kept pooling their problems in my pool.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“it's hard to get shit done when there's no one to do it for you”
― Dmitry Dyatlov

“One of the main downsides of not being poor or broke is that you are quick to replace even what can be fixed by you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“How long are you gonna ignore the fact that you can only be ignored so many times before you must start ignoring those who are ignoring you?”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Regardless of what your parents did to wound you, at some point you have to take responsibility for your life and parent yourself the way you want to be parented!”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones